Maybe that’s the only time he can get his phone back from his aides? Serious question: how much of his constant attacks on Machado are a heavy handed attempt to frighten other women who have also been mistreated by him from going public?
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To those who would defend Trump with “what he meant to say,” I would remind them that according to Trump, he always says what he means.
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Good. A message needs to be sent that this sort of intimidation is not something that should be tolerated. I hope Leslie Jones is feeling all the love being sent her way after this and knows that the vast majority of people have nothing but sympathy for her.
When your immediate take on a situation is “she’s a liar; she leaked the tape” and not “holy shit he’s a violent drunken asshole,” that’s what I mean by giving him a pass.
Well, but honestly, so what?
I was just reading some comments about the Depp/Heard story on other sites and I’ve concluded that a video could emerge of Johnny Depp repeatedly punching Amber Heard in the face, and the internet would still declare her to be a gold digger who deserved it.
So fucking depressing.
How about we start outing people who do this rather than protecting them? I see that the one that caused me (and lots of other people) the most personal trouble is nowhere outed on the internet, so here goes: C.D.C. Reeve, Plato scholar and philosopher of sex, is a widely-known creep, who creepily chose me as an…
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why use ‘blind eye’ when ‘accessory’ has such a nice ‘lock you in jail for a while’ ring to it?
As one of the signatories, I am so glad to see that Jezebel is covering this.
Yes, because the school itself ignored the situation for as long as they could. An “open secret” and supervisors knowing about it and even warning students is not the same as an official action by Yale. By their inaction the school endorsed this creep’s activities.